But I guess that’s my central question. What’s so bad about having ephemeral history on a forum?
Is it really just an issue with the cost of disk space?
Is 4chan a “chat room” in your opinion? Do you disagree that evergreen topics are an actual real popular thing that people might legitimately want?
What’s the largest topic size that you think is still in the range of a “good fit” for Discourse? We’ve got a topic with 33K posts on it; I’m guessing that’s too big. Is 1,000 already too big? How much of this is performance and how much of this has to do with usability/social effects? (e.g. would your ideal maximum be 2x if Android phones were faster?)